San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-16
AETER COERCION, WHAT3

AFTER COERCION, WHAIr
There Ia now no reasonable hope that
the conservatiye-tory government OF
England will fail in its attempt to pass
this most oppressive measure OF oOer-
oion. The Salisbury Chamberlain com
binaiion is too strong to be overcome by
any forces that the Gladstone-Parnell
liberals can bring into the field. The
amendments that are to be proposed will
not materially alter the situation. The
government party will not consent to
any radical changes, and their whippers-
In have the union liberal party too well
in hand for them to bolt at any infamy
proposed, no matter how atrOoious. The
marriage OF the ministerial-tory par
tisans, and the anti-Glad: tOnians OF the
so called union liberal party, Is too well
suited TO the anti-Irish instincts OF both
for any reasonable hope Of quarrel at
the altar. Like Herod and PLATE when
they made their Infamous combination
against the Nszarine. Salisbury and
Chamberlain have made peace over the
sacrifice OF Ireland's liberties, and the
sacred rights guaranteed her under the
union. Parnell and his associates are
not DESTROYS OF any change In the iDfsm-
Gus law upon which Salisbury and Cham
berlsin have agreed; law the Infamous
lines OF which are written In the hearts
blood OF that heroic nation to whose valor
England owes her national ex-
istence today. The acute Irish states
men prefer to have this measure OF Irish
coercion passed in all its naked injustice
and inhumanlty In order that 1t may
the sooner cease to be operative by the
weight of its own iniqulty. The feeling
grows general that this crimes act will
be the last attempt Of the West
minister parliament 1t is this view OF the
situation which impels the Irish leaders
TO accept the situation so calmly, while
they provoke the hatred Of the tory
party to do its worst. That the act will
be passed is no more certain than that
its operations will be OF very brief dura-
ton. The Boston Pilot seems to have
calculated the horoscope Of this crimes
act very closely, and predicts that the
year will hardly close before the reac-
ton Will come. The essential vicious
ness of the act, in the Pilots opinion,
will become so apparent to parliament,
to the country, that the ministry will
not be able to sustain itself before the
people, and vote Of lost confidence
be passed which will return them to the
country for new election In which
they will be defeated and Gladstone be
returned to power with large liberal
majority. The Pilot thinks that the
commons in 1888 will rush through a
home rule bill which the Lords will re-
jet, upon which Gladstone will appeal
to the people, when 1.-The answer Of
England will sweep over the dismayed
House of Peers like an incoming tide
over an anchored log with short
chain" The prediction is then made
that the House of Lords will pass the
home rule bill, and that In 1899, "the
long suffering Irish nation will settle
down to century Of honor and pros
Derity under its own parliament" Those
predictions may not be fulfilled as to
date, but they are by no means utopian,
considering the advance that home rule
ideas have made since 1885. The Bos-
ton Pilot may be considered very safe
pilot in laying the course for the great
home rule vessel which is destined in
the near future to enter the Irish port
with all cOlOrs flying.